Ilana Wexler's speech at 2004 Democratic Party Convention (July 27,2004) Ilana Wexler: My name is Ilana Wexler. I'm 12 years old, and I am the founder of "Kids for Kerry." Kids for Kerry is a grassroo
The second trap is a confusion between experience and memory; 第二个陷阱是经验和记忆间的混淆： basically, it's between being happy in your life, 基本上这是在生活中体会快乐 and being happy about your life or happy with your life.
And if you would choose a different vacation, 如果你选了个不同的假期， there is a conflict between your two selves, 你的两个自我之间将会产生冲突， and you need to think about how to adjudicate that conflict, 你得想法来裁决这场冲突， and it
This is an old study. Those are actual patients undergoing a painful procedure. 这是一个古老的研究。一些真正的病人将会接受一种痛苦的治疗方法。 I won't go into detail. It's no longer painful these days, 细节不再详述。现今的疗法已不再如此难受， but it w
Everybody talks about happiness these days. 最近大家都在谈论着快乐。 I had somebody count the number of books with "happiness" in the title published in the last five years 在过去的五年里，我请人数了近年来有多本书的书名中提到“快乐”， and the
But now, because the reflective self is in charge, 不过，既然现实由思考自我主导， you may end up -- some people may end up moving to California. 一些人可能会得到这样一种结论，那就是搬到加州。 And it's sort of interesting to trace what is
The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self 近年来，经验自我的快乐 and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, 和记忆自我的满足的差异性已能分清， and there are now efforts
We know something about what controls satisfaction of the happiness self. 我们知道什么能够让人的快乐得到满足。 We know that money is very important, goals are very important. 我们知道钱是很重要的，目标也非常重要。 We know that happiness
I mean, most of the moments of our life -- 我们生活中的大多片刻-- and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; 我算了算--从心理学角度来说仅仅只是三秒长。 that means that, you know,
I mean, how much do we consume our memories? 我们使用了多少的记忆？ That is one of the explanations that is given for the dominance of the remembering self. 这可以解释记忆自我为何能成为主导的自我。 And when I think about that, I th
And in this way, time is actually the critical variable 因此时间是区分 that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self; 记忆自我和经验自我的关键因素。 time has very little impact on the story. 时间对这个故事的影响不大。
What this is telling us, really, 这告诉我们， is that we might be thinking of ourselves and of other people in terms of two selves. 我们在思考自己和别人时，用了两种自我。 There is an experiencing self, 第一种则为经验自我， who lives in
But Danny, the whole American endeavor is about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. 可是丹尼，生命、自由和追求快乐是所有美国人奋斗的目标。 If people took seriously that finding, 假若大家都认真对待这一发现， I mean, it seems to turn upsi
Thank you. I've got a question for you. Thank you so much. 谢谢您的演讲。我有个问题想请教您。非常感谢您的演说。 Now, when we were on the phone a few weeks ago, 几星期前，我们有过一次电话通讯， you mentioned to me that there was quite an inter
From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time. 从经验自我的角度来看，病人B显然是比较难受的。 Now, what you could do with Patient A, and we actually ran clinical experiments, 那么病人A的情况该如何解释，我们实
